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[โ€“] F04118F@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well you're not allowed to call it a "bean burger" anymore cause that would be coNfUSInG according to the animal mass murder lobby.

[โ€“] Tweak@feddit.uk 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Well youโ€™re not allowed to call it a โ€œbean burgerโ€ anymore cause that would be coNfUSInG according to the animal mass murder lobby.

Can you find a primary source for this? Because all I see is articles that may well be clickbait. I want to see what they actually voted on.

I think certain terms are definitively meat, eg steak, but saying a burger is exclusively meat is like saying a pizza must have plain tomato sauce.

In any case, this hasn't been finalised yet as the European Commission - the actual competent lawyers rather than populist representatives (who might not actually represent their voters) - have yet to have their say. I'd hope that common sense would withdraw "burger" from any law that comes out of this.

Edit: With (far too much) digging I managed to find what they voted on, and it does indeed include burger: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2025-0214_EN.html Ammendment 113, if you just search the page for "burger" you'll find the list of terms.

These names include, for example:

  โ€”  Steak
  โ€”  Escalope
  โ€”  Sausage
  โ€”  Burger
  โ€”  Hamburger
  โ€”  Egg yolk
  โ€”  Egg white.
[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not mass producing, selling or advertising them, so this ruling doesn't apply to me.

[โ€“] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess it's a good thing then that no one will be allowed to buy the bean burger you just praised from anyone in Europe?

Imagine people ordering a "lentil burger", "soy burger", "plant burger", "bean burger", or "chickpea burger", and receiving a vegan meal. Can you imagine how shocked and deceived, perhaps even violated they may feel?

The horror! Luckily the European Christian Democrats protected European citizens from this huge and common problem instead of, oh I dunno, helping European industry with the energy transition or end a genocide. They have their priorities straight here.

Or maybe, just maybe, this is another attempt by the animal mass murder industry to slow down the transition to a slightly less cruel food production system and these politicians are earning some blood money?

[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ok OK you win. It's a bean patty.

I'll go to eat some rare steaks now. Real beef, of course.